Gimped
The family of Gimpte is a ritterbürtiges Uradelsgeschlecht the pin Munster and Burgmann sex of the country castle Nygenborch .
history
origin
The namesake Hermanno de Gymmethe (* around 1250) is mentioned for the first time in 1276 as a knight of the Landesburg Nygenborch and ministerial of the bishop of Münster Everhard von Diest .
The name is derived from the village of Gimbte , now part of the city of Greven an der Ems . The oldest form of the name comes from the register of the Überwasserstift Münster from the 11th century and is Gimmethe. The name could be interpreted to mean that meth in Old Low German means math, mat or grassland and in Gim there is the word Kimm or Kimme = edge or horizon . The interpretation would then mean grassland on the bank or edge of a river .
distribution
The sex is listed between 1276 and 1615 in the documents and trial documents of the diocese of Münster . There were connections to the aristocratic families Keppel, Buldern, Oldenburg, Rechede, Ascheberg , Mensink, Rorup, Bever, Wullen and Mecheln , among others .
Hermann v. As a knight of the Teutonic Order, Gimbte was House Commander of Riga from 1418 to 1419, Vogt of Narva from 1420 to 1421 and, at the latest, in 1426 Commander in Bremen . Bernhard von Gimbte was Commander of the Teutonic Order in Bremen in 1429.
Gisela von Gimpte, widow of the knight Cord von Mecheln, was heiress of the Mechelnschen estates, which among other things were in the area of today's cities and communities Ahlen , Hoetmar and Vorhelm . Lambert von Oer zu Kakesbeck , born in 1440, married to Johanna von Middachten, bought Gisela von Gimpte's Mechel property together with Gerd von Beverförde zu Werries in 1491. Due to her age and poor health, she was blind, she was no longer able to manage the inherited but over-indebted goods. After the sale, she lived briefly on one of the estates of Beverförde and moved to Kakesbeck Castle in 1492 . She was housed appropriately by Lambert von Oer in a residential tower on a bailey and provided with an appropriate body breed. In 1499 she declared in court that all claims from the sale of the Mechelian goods had been settled and moved to Dortmund . Under the influence of Hermann von Ascheberg and his wife Anna von Gimpte, the niece of Gisela, on June 15, 1503, she revoked the sale of Mechel's goods from 1491 and sued Lambert von Oer at the court in Münster. She had been cheated and taken advantage of and Lambert von Oer had kept her prisoner at Kakesbeck Castle for nine years against her will. As early as 1503, Hermann von Ascheberg and his wife Anna von Gimpte had lodged a judicial objection to the sale because they saw themselves as the legal heirs of Mechel's property. The court court in Munster did not issue a final judgment. Between 1510 and 1520 Anna von Gimpte sued the official courts of Münster / Werl and Cologne . Here their appeals and complaints were rejected and, moreover, "eternal silence" was imposed on them. Jaspara, daughter of Hermann von Ascheberg and Anna von Gimpte, married Goddert von Harmen in 1518. Harmen, companion of the Imperial Knight Franz von Sickingen between 1515 and 1519 , recognized the possibility of considerable gain for himself and the Ascheberg family. On Sunday, July 25th, 1520 he attacked Lambert von Oer with eight accomplices in the immediate vicinity of Kakesbeck Castle. They beat him from his horse, wounded him, stole his horse and weapons, wrapped him in an iron collar and forced him to take an oath on the Bible that he had to go to Haus Padberg in the Sauerland on July 29th . There he would receive an explanation of the attack from Hermann von Ascheberg. Lambert, however, rode to Münster on the day of the attack. Forge master Thiele Schwoll was supposed to free him from the collar. A few days after the attack, Lambert von Oer appeared in front of the state parliament, showed the collar and described what had happened to him. The Landtag then protested unanimously and condemned the dishonorable and unknightly attack by Goddert von Harmen on the highly respected Lambert von Oer. In the following years the dispute over the Mechelschen estates escalated and the last great knight feud spread across large parts of the Münsterland. A comparison was only made in 1528. Goddert von Harmen renounced the Mechelian goods and received 4,500 gold guilders as compensation from the von Oers. (taken from "Gimpte zu Nyghenborch" genealogy of an ancient noble family, H.-J. v. Gimpte, 2013, pages 55-73)
The iron collar of Lambert von Oer zu Kakesbeck is now kept at Vischering Castle and exhibited in the Münsterland Museum there. It is a unique and perfidiously constructed masterpiece of the metalworking art of that time. Authors from the past centuries who reported on the collar attributed the production to a master in Nuremberg. On the initiative of Heinrich-Josef v. Gimpte, a descendant of Cord von Gimptes, brother of the above. Gisela, and with the permission of the current owner of the collar, Benedikt Graf Droste zu Vischering, examined in October 2012 Prof. Dr. Ünsal Yalcin and Dr. Michael Prange from the Archeometallurgical Institute of the Bochum Mining Museum won the collar at Vischering Castle. They performed an X-ray fluorescence analysis of the iron collar on site. Prof. Yalcin pointed out an unusually high proportion of phosphorus in the iron alloy and referred to the ores from the Sauerland that were mined at that time. The scientists noticed a slightly reddish-gold shimmering discoloration on the inside of the collar. Here the measurement showed that it is a brass alloy. In December 2012, on the recommendation of Prof. Yalcin, another X-ray examination was carried out at the Institute for Westphalian History of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association in Münster. For the first time it was possible to see the intricately sophisticated locking mechanism. The brass alloy could also be explained by the restorer, Eugen Müsch. The individually forged parts of the collar were joined together by the liquid cast brass alloy. On the basis of the metal alloys and the construction, von Gimpte suspects that the iron ore, processing and production were in the Sauerland area (von Gimpte suspects Iserlohn). On closer inspection it can be clearly seen that the four points on the inside are neither particularly pointed nor sharp. The collar should exert physical and psychological pressure on the wearer in a double sense of the word and, so to speak, capture him at a distance in order to remind him of his oath. On the inside there are still two of the six iron plates. The locksmith had provided the middle one with a 2 × 2 mm opening for a hook wrench. The key could only be inserted after removing a plate from the underside of the collar. The blacksmith in Münster had discovered the plate, but could not see through the locking mechanism. He prized the collar at the point where the two halves met and was ultimately only able to pry the collar open with force. (taken from "Gimpte zu Nyghenborch" genealogy of an ancient noble family, H.-J. v. Gimpte, 2013, pages 47-55) From 1600 to 1900 the family was listed in the parish registers of the parish of St. Agatha in Epe .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows three black lilies in gold, on the helmet a black (right) and a gold (left) wing, the helmet covers are also gold and black.
The lilies were taken from this coat of arms in the coat of arms of the municipality of Gimbte (1939–1974):
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese archives Münster : Archives of the parish of Heek / Nienborg - Archives Egelborg. United Westphalian Aristocratic Archives, Münster.
- ↑ H.-J. v. Gimps to Nyghenborch: Gimps to Nyghenborch: A Münsterland collar affair . National Library Leipzig / Frankfurt, University and State Library Münster, call number 2C9339, German Aristocratic Archive Marburg.
- ^ Hugo Kemkes: The Lehnsregister der Bishops from Münster to 1379 Münster: Regensberg 1995, p. 123, E 76, p. 247, E 442, p. 372, E 864 ISBN 3-7923-0674-3 .
- ↑ Joseph Prinz : Greven an der Ems: the history of the city and the office of Greven. Greven 2005, unchanged reprint of the 1950 edition, ISBN 3-928372-15-7 , p. 23.
- ↑ Joseph Wermert, Heinz Schaten: Heek and Nienborg , 1998, ISBN 3-00-002722-X , pages 263, 264, 268, 270, 590, 597, 645th
- ^ Lutz Fenske, Klaus Militzer: Knight in the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order. Cologne, Weimar, Berlin, 1993. ISBN 3412065935 , p. 260 f.
- ↑ Peter Gallus: The collar of Lambert v. Oer. In: Kreis Coesfeld 1985. ISBN 3-9810927-5-9 , p. 79
- ↑ Frank Dierkes: Arguable and honorable. Münster, Aschendorff, 2007 ISBN 3-402-15040-9 .
- ↑ Heimatverein Epe, Digitized Church Books.
- ↑ Heraldry at greven.net ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Max von Spiessen : Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility. Plate 140, Westphalian Archives Office, Spiessen Collection, no.16.
